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Will it be possible to completely bar yourself indoors with a slowly diminishing food supply, as you desperately try to tunnel under your house to the old abandoned supermarket (using only a spade and a few spoons), which you cannot get to by walking outside as the horde has descended upon your home?

Right now this is lending itself to more of a 2d flash game (in my head anyway).

Of course, there's tons of different ways to do it, ways to style it, ways to set up the controls, etc. 

Heres my idea of 'Ahab'

You start in a tutorial with a ship and small crew learning mechanics:

Ship tactics; have your crew take different positions to do different things and respond to weather and environment.
Spearing; how to aim for whales/other prey, using harpoons with different abilities
Movement/Navigation, etc.
Selling/recruiting in towns.

After bagging 2 whales, you meet the great white whale, which destroys your ship and all your crew and leaves you maimed.  You start back in town on a dinky ship with just enough to run it, and a new stat called Madness.  Madness is a good/bad stat which as it goes up gives the captain more strength and allows the ship better survival in adverse conditions, but as it goes up the types of crew you can recruit changes and the events that happen run more to insanity itself.

You then scour the seas hunting and bagging whales and other sea creatures, slowly upgrading your ship again and recruiting.  You eventually begin encountering mythical sea creatures and bagging them too, with new whale types appearing.  Eventually new areas open up, which contain flying whales and ghost whales.  You eventually plunge into hell itself where your ship must tread on lava (and any crew that fall in die, of course) hunting red lava whales and demon whales (and a host of other creatures).  At the end, you confront the great white whale at the edge of creation, where an epic duel occurs (more epic if Ahab is completely mad by then and all his crew have abandoned him or died).

I think that would work.

Ahab, the game.
Or maybe just 'Ahab'

And new client is posted (server still down though).

A picture Haxus (the lead dev) took in Shores of Hazeron of my carrier/mothership with 13 ships attached (one out on a scouting mission) and a station docked in the back.

Upon checking out the raging flamewars on the forums, looks like they've got THAT part of the classic EQ experience down pat!